Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Burgles, Penguins, Boom-Booms

Week 6 against the Dolphins. That's great news. That's great news if you are a Terry McLaren. Yes, it is. I still expect this team to run the ball ridiculously high amounts under Bill Callahan. That's what he's come out and said. He said that it's not even about yards per carry. It's about amount of attempts. He's my worry for Terry McLaurin. I'm so happy. He's like a caricature.

He's so big. Because I think the end of the quote then said the team that has the most rushing attempts usually wins. It was the end of the quote. Which is, hey, stop. No, here's the thing. That's true. Right? You can't, I mean, you can't deny that what he's saying is true. I just think the reason why is not understood by him. It is a former offensive line coach that began coaching in 1995.

You are correct, Jason. I'm not sure he understands the actual correlation. I think it was Mike Clay tweeted out. Like, oh, crap. So, like, make sure Calhoun doesn't know that the team that kneels the ball in the fourth quarter almost always wins. Oh, my gosh. All right. Good news on Deshawn Jackson, I think. Unlikely to suit up this week. Okay, that's the bad news. The good news is they're targeting a week seven return of Deshawn Jackson. This is big news if you have Deshaun Jackson and you've been sad.

This is great news if you have Carson Wentz, and he's got another weapon coming back. I do think this offense finds its rhythm over the course of this season, and Deshaun Jackson is going to be a big part of it. We have Thursday night football updates for you. Philip Dorset, out. Saquan, Ingram, Shepard, out. Don't forget to take your Thursday night players out of the flex position.

There's a lot of flex type of players in this match. If you've got Josh Gordon. You mean on the Patriots side. Right. I'm just thinking Josh Gordon, James White, Sony-Michel, those are guys that you've been putting in your flex. Get them out of your flex. Mike, you've got to set the alarm early. Another reminder. There's a super early game this weekend. Oh, no. So that flex rule applies for those players, too, that are starting the super early game.

I think it's the Tampa Bay game. Correct. Tampa Bay, Carolina. Yeah, that's in London. That game's for West Coasters, that's a 6.30 a.m. game. Ridiculous. So I need to put, you know, you got to put those guys into your position spots as well. Well, I've in or out tomorrow. More injury updates. Get you ready for week six. And the game day alerts. You can get them. Join the foot.com. It's one of the many perks of being a supporter of the show.

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We have it on continuous. Which is awesome. So we have the fab waiver system and the continuous where it opens, it runs all the claims that people have put in, and then it shuts down. It's not just a free-for-all smorgasborg. Whoever works on a computer has access to the breaking news players. So Jason. Mm-hmm.

You are now the proud owner once again of Malcolm Brown. When did you drop Malcolm Brown? Yesterday. You dropped him yesterday? Yes. So when yesterday's waivers ran, I was talking to Brooks. I missed that. I'm glad you did. I did not miss it. I actually got paranoid when Jason, when you told Mike early in the show and you go, are you over there running to the waiver wire. I'm like, why did you say that? You think you are paranoid?

So here's a deal. I've been holding on the Malcolm Brown for obvious reasons. The whole season. He's had Malcolm around the whole season. And here's what happened. I thought to myself, well, look, he's not even touching the field. Todd Gurley's on 94% of snaps. We've got two IR spots. I wanted to pick up John Ross, who's coming back. He wanted to be sneaky, put John Ross on the IR and then pick him up again the next day. And pick up Malcolm Brown for like a dollar. And what happens? And then right after the waivers run the news, I'm like I just dropped him.

So now I picked them up for 20. I knew how bad you must have been and you couldn't talk about it yesterday because he didn't want us to know about it. Exactly. I knew it. When we did drop it like, Mike didn't even follow the advice. We did drop it like it's hot yesterday on the show. We look at it. All the players dropped off. First name that pops out is Malcolm Brown. The news breaks. I go, okay. All right. For 25. I burned $25 of fab so I could get an injured John Ross, essentially.

This is your Nick Chub moment. Oh, this is spectacular. But it worked out that you paid up to go get them after you dropped them. That's some fun drama. That's really funny. All right, fantasy forecast. Teams on by, Bears, Bills, Colts, Raiders. Let's get into the week six matchups, the early London game Panthers. At 3 and 2, take on the Buccaneers at 2 and 3. This game is a tight one. That's how Vegas sees it. Panthers are 2.5 point favorites. It's a 47.5 point over under.

And like I said, the game is early. It's 9.30 Eastern time in London. Like the chickens aren't even up. I don't know when the chickens get up, Mike. But the roosters get up with the sun. I'm saying over here living in the best time zone, the roosters are not awake for this game. I'm not surprised you want them to schedule this game around you. Is that too much to ask?

You know, last week they had a London game. It was 1 p.m. It was really fine. Nobody noticed. Maybe that's why. Maybe they need you to notice. All right. I like it because I get up early. So I like having football on right away. But we've got the James Winston, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin experience on the Tampa side. We've got the Christian McCaffrey. I wanted to bring it up because he missed practice yesterday too. So you don't want to leave him out of the equation. But unlike David Johnson and Todd Gurley.

His head coach came out and said, Wednesday is the new normal. We're going to give him that day off. They should probably give him Thursday off as well. Look, as a fantasy owner, this is awesome. This is saying, no, we're not adjusting his workload. We're just going to give him more days off. He's fine. That's a dream come true. Let all of his work be on Sunday. And then every week as a fantasy owner, you don't see Christian McCaffrey missed practice on Wednesday, and then you just have that slight bit of fear inside. That's true.

Yeah, when Marshawn Lynch used to miss practice every week. Oh, gosh. That was the worst. All right, let's look at this game. I really like James Winston's opportunity in this one. It's got a high over under. I love the offense and what they're doing in Tampa in terms of using James Winston. They're leading the league in the last four weeks at yards per attempt. James Winston's up at the top. You have two elite wide receivers, clearly. You've got Chris Goblin.

Was that you deciding if you should go forward or not? I don't know if it's disrespectful when you're the number one wide receiver in fantasy football to be called a goblin or not. He's gobbling up the targets. Thank you. He is. Now we're using two different meanings of it. Chris Turkey Godwin. But Chris Godwin, Mike Evans. Evans leads the NFL in the air yards. He's the fourth highest at 20.2 yards per reception. But you have a, you know, you had a super disappointing week.

last week. He got Goosed. But you're playing him, right? Yeah. 100%. You have to keep playing Mike Evans. I mean, imagine having his monster games on your bench. Two of the last three weeks, he's been a top 10 wide receiver. But it is concerning because three of five weeks, he's been a major disappointment. I mean, as a Mike Evans owner, I cry on the inside every time Chris Goblin touches the ball. So let me.

We're going to play Godwin. We're going to play Evans. I've got an idea here for Mike Evans. Something that could help motivate him. You're going to take matters into your own hands? I am. I am. And this is for fantasy football purposes and just some extra player motivation. Back in the day, you know, when someone committed a crime, they had to then wear the scarlet letter. You know? Mm-hmm. Give him a scarlet zero. He has to pin that to his jersey.

and wear that to remind himself that he gave us zero points. You think shame is the key? I think so. I think Mike Evans would look down at that zero. You think that was a real good time in our history, the Scarlet Letter era. Well, I wasn't saying that. But it worked. I think we'll really have to think long and hard about that, Mike. I'm going to take us, give us some thought. Don't forget. In Mike Evans' life, he's got Twitter on his shoulder letting him know. Ah!

You goost me. All right. On the other side of the ball at wide receiver, that's to me where it gets interesting. It's a very difficult decision there. Tampa's given up 323 passing yards a game. Exactly. The matchup is great. But you've been pretty disappointed with Curtis Samuel and DJ Moore. This is the week where players go on by. We've got injuries to deal with. And you need to sometimes make starts.

from deep on your bench or from the waivers. And I think, you know, Curtis Samuel, to me, he's been getting the targets over DJ Moore in general with Kyle Allen. I think you could do worse than starting him if you're in a position of need. It's difficult because you have to make the call that this will be the game. And it's hard with a player like that. Curtis Samuel hasn't had the production. So then you are making the leap on the basis of a